NEW YORK (AP) -- There are no American men in the round of 16 at the U.S. Open, the first time that's happened at a tournament that began in 1881.

The last of the host country's 15 entrants was 109th-ranked Tim Smyczek, and the wild-card recipient lost 6-4, 4-6, 0-6, 6-3, 7-5 in the third round to 43rd-ranked Marcel Granollers of Spain on Sunday night.It's symbolic of the downturn for elite men's tennis in the United States. No one from the country reached the fourth round at any of the four Grand Slam tournaments in 2013. And last month, for the first time in the 40 years of ATP rankings, there was a week with zero U.S. men in the top 20.

hello, bad monday again, the sneaky bad secretary said she is going to visit doctor again, shameless of her, hard to believe that you need 4 hours to visit doctor. She already did this many times this year, she now has many many holidays coz of cheating. Shamelss of a woman who is oved 50 but with no moral.

Of course, I'm looking forward to the match but I'm pretty sure the outcome won't be the one I would like to see.

You should try another allergy medication. I always have to change mine after a while because it stops working.

Ahhhh, Mostar... Actually I have to decide between going back to Bosnia in October or going on a trip to Georgia (the country, not the US state) with a friend of mine. Both options sound way too tempting.

I think you have a point there. I will hit walmart tomorrow and try another one.

Claritin used to work quite well but now it does not work at all.

mostar is stunning beyond belief. I have been looking at the pictures on the internet.

Hi CD, nice pictures, now listen, we have a little bit of a difference between our views here.......... namely that i like Castles to be built on forums, no matter if open source or not, and not Castles burned, disbanded, deleted, closed, etc. etc. .........

You know I like you very much, maybe even too much, and Betty and me are 2 good hearted mugs, we would probably follow you anywhere 'til the end of the world.....

on the other hand, you're making lots of one man decisions which could be fine to Betty and me, we like to help you with your castle, but unfortunately many of your decisions, including your last one affect people like Emma for example who was starting to feel good at that place and now she's screwed..... during your demolition job here we lost many friends and supporters, and now this last one was everything but necessary and will cost us even more....... you're destroying everything for ????? clowish trolls and cocky mods??????

if we are real community builders we can't drag grown up people here and there like puppets or toys........

I told you i will follow you and all cause you are freakin cool, as far as i'm concerned we can start 5 free boards a day and clown there and delete and disband castles there every day, hell even destroy whole forums, but not on other people's forums especially when it affects other people

last evening when i got home i checked out the forums quickly and i saw tf too but was too ko to post there, what a big mistake, i saw bb opened the castle and i said to myself "all is well" and now i see you went back and got it closed.......

when baron not only did everything to fix the issues with the forum but complied with the users' every whim....

people like Emma and BB and many others don't deserve to be treated this way.....

baron is a good guy but he is being jerked around by moxie and tented. they want to rule their own empire with no flexibility.

you saw what they did. moxie and tented started deleting and editing posts at the castle knowing fully well that everything was totally under control at the castle.

they jumped right over javi and me and started meddling.

I am not asking anybody to follow me. go where you need to go man.

just so you know baron has no use for you so you may want to stop beating his drums.

he said you are an arse and that he did not care if you left there and never came back.

baron might have been willing to work with me a little bit but moxie and tented have him by the balls.

I told baron to restore the castle yesterday and I told him to restore me and javi as mods there. people will come because they feel safe and secure with us. lot of people know me and javi and they know that we are good people.

so our names at the top of the castle were meant more for those who may have wanted to consider a move there. so it was just good business.

baron is bright but 2 his chimpanzees are not. he is trying but I am sure moxie and tented will run that place into the ground just as they did at tennis.com and tennis digital or something.

they don't understand good business. also they were not doing us any favors as moxie keeps saying.

it is exactly the other way around. I was trying too damn hard to sell their stupid snake oil. it was us that were helping them with some growth.

well our experiment worked just fine. lot of people followed us there because we are good people.

now those same people are leaving or have left already.

you heard sid: he said he did not want to be a part of place like that with all that excessive meddling and policing.

emma also told baron that she had some concerns with the meddling and editing posts at stuff. they were going too far.

nothing ventured, nothing gained. at least I learned something sooner rather than later.

and what I learned was that we are 2nd class citizens there at best. that does not work for me.

every other bloody day they make somebody a global mod there and yet they stepped right over me and javi.

well I am not going to give them ever a chance again to think that I am a second class citizen.

at any rate nobody has to follow me. I am not asking a damn person to follow me.

go where you need to go man.

all I know is that left that place for just 2 reasons:

1. they deleted and edited sid`s posts2. they deleted and edited your posts

so I did the right thing and stood up for somebody.

I told them to correct the problem. they failed to correct it. in fact they did exactly the opposite: they downgraded the castle and gave their frontier bar the top billing and they removed me and javi from the mod positions.

and when I asked them what the hell they were doing, they came back with this:

they said they will put the castle back on top again but that they will moderate.

you call that fixing the issues?

anyway this time I cashed out for good. I gave them a 2nd chance.

its done and I am done with them.

you go where you need to go. I did not ask anybody to follow me.

I will stay right here and just relax. a little peace and quiet is a good thing until I decide what I need to do next.